Tune in Monday, February 7, 6 to 7:30, pm to a Zoom community conversation on issues and challenges concerning race in the school and community settings.
The “R...
Newtown High School’s gymnastics team won a close one, edging host New Milford 136.850 to 136.300 on January 25.
Renee Chard was second in the all around with a...
I love winter, but I couldn’t help but smile at the news from Connecticut Beardsley Zoo this week that Beardsley Bart, a Prognosticating Prairie Dog, dug out fr...
Newtown High School’s wrestling team tangled with some of the top teams in the state to close out January and begin February, including taking on a Fairfield Wa...
Rosario John Mannuzza, Jr, 78, of Ridgefield, surrounded by family, died peacefully in his home, “The Croft,” on February 2, 2022. His 14-year battle with Parki...
When Betty Presnell and her son Michael visited FAITH Food Pantry (FFP) last week, their donation put an ongoing bottle and can drive past another significant m...
Since its creation in 2018, the $10,000 Hertberg Family Foundation Scholarship has helped give local students more options when selecting which college to atten...
The Newtown High School girls’ and boys’ track teams are optimistic going into the South-West Conference and State Championships with many postseason qualifiers...
NEW HAVEN — Newtown High School’s girls’ indoor track team captured the South-West Conference championship at Floyd Little Athletic Center on Saturday night, Fe...
St Rose of Lima School seventh grade students recently created Love Bug Craft Bags for C.H. Booth Library to distribute to children.
The bags were delivered to ...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).